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InternetNews
July 19, 2010 |
Microsoft Lands Cloud Deal With NYC Schools As it continues efforts to entice large, public-sector organizations to sign up for its expanding portfolio of cloud services, Microsoft lands e-mail partnership with New York City schools.   |
IDB America
April 2003
Paulina Gonzalez-Pose |
Education that respects cultures and communities Many things about Mexico's Community Education program are inspiring, starting with the enthusiam of the young instructors who volunteer to teach in remote and often difficult settings. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2009
Rama Ramaswami |
A World of Hurt : Latin America Massive socioeconomic problems have left Latin American education in a dire condition, and decades behind the rest of the globe in integrating technology into teaching and learning. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010 |
Science Education Outreach Targets Students In Rural Schools Many of HHMI's science education grantees are focusing their outreach efforts on teachers and students from rural schools. Because long-distance travel is often out of the question, they are sending curricula and materials to rural teachers. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 17, 2010
David Nagel |
Snapshot: Students Want Online Learning High school students seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of online instruction as a component of their educations. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 26, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
Teach for America To Receive $500,000 Infusion Teach for America, a national nonprofit that specializes in recruiting talented educators for high-need regions and schools, will receive a $500,000 contribution from petroleum giant ExxonMobil, the company announced earlier this month. |
IDB America
May 2002 |
Innovation can be contagious There are islands of innovation and creativity throughout Latin America's vast public education systems, but very little human traffic between them. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 9, 2009 |
Drill Down K-12 principals reveal the kinds of tech skills they would like preservice teachers to have upon receiving their credential. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 4, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
Report Shows Teachers Not Adequately Prepared for Education Reform A new report by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning indicated that in California, where schools are pursuing ambitious education reform, while many teachers are well qualified to take on the demands of such an effort, many more simply are not up to the task. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 16, 2014
Michael Blanding |
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology With 50 million public school students in America, technology holds much potential to transform schools, says John Jong-Hyun Kim. So why isn't it happening? |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2009 |
Online PD: The Teachers Talk Back More than half of teachers surveyed cited scheduling as a primary benefit of participating in online professional development offerings. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 1, 2010
John K. Waters |
Dream On: Visionary Educators and Their Big Ideas The four educators we've chosen to spotlight as visionaries conceived, developed, and guided technology-driven initiatives perhaps initially thought to be impractical. |
Information Today
July 23, 2013
Barbie E. Keiser |
E-Rate Connects America's Classrooms, Libraries The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation convened on July 17, 2013 to discuss ways to strengthen E-Rate (E-Rate 2.0: Connecting Every Child to the Transformative Power of Technology). |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 14, 2008
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina The organization New Schools for New Orleans aims to create networks of schools to receive shared support services while avoiding the dysfunctions of a large urban district. |
InternetNews
April 7, 2009
David Needle |
Teachers Driving Web 2.0 Adoption? A new survey indicates teachers are leading the charge to get more Web 2.0 services into the classroom. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 1, 2009 |
Drill Down Survey data shows the variety of ways teachers are using OER to benefit learning, and how that use has evolved over the past three years. |
National Defense
August 2010
Cynthia D. Miller |
Classroom Perspective: Teachers Speak Out About STEM Three science, technology, mathematics and engineering teachers in different education systems talk about their efforts to attract students to these fields. |
BusinessWeek
January 13, 2011 |
Teachers' Union Boss Randi Weingarten The president of the American Federation of Teachers on public schools, teacher bonuses, and why unions are so unpopular |
T.H.E. Journal
October 1, 2009 |
Drill Down Administrators report on the obstacles they encounter in the effort to provide students with take-home technologies. |
Managed Care
July 2005 |
Economically, country mouse does better Although lower income in rural areas is often cited as an obstacle to recruitment of physicians, one study suggests rural and urban areas do not differ significantly - at least, in terms of income. |
Fast Company
July 2010
Stephanie Schomer |
IBM's Open-Source Approach to Disaster Management Patricia Menezes oversaw IBM's recent relief efforts in Chile, using open-source software to find missing persons and helping start communities on the long road to emotional recovery. |
Information Today
March 12, 2015 |
Cisco Extends IT-Focused Academic Program in Mexico Cisco renewed its partnership with the University of Guadalajara under the Cisco Networking Academy program and agreed to expand the program in the university's schools. |
Entrepreneur
April 2010 |
Top Honors Business school students give a shout out to their schools. The Princeton Review's Student Opinion Honors for business schools. |
Fast Company
December 2008
Kate Rockwood |
The Academy for Urban School Leadership: A Teacher-Training Residency If you applied the medical-residency model to urban schools, you'd have the AUSL's teacher-training program: mentoring, grad school, 49 weeks shadowing a veteran teacher, and four years teaching in Chicago's neediest classrooms. |
IDB America
May 2002
Lawrence Wolff |
An environment that encourages change Chile begins to see the fruits of nearly two decades of educational reform |
Job Journal
April 20, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: School Teacher Our children are the future, and school teachers are entrusted with the responsibility of educating and inspiring them. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2007
Salyer & Bloom |
The March of the Cities The coming year marks a dramatic milestone: the world's urban population will outstrip its rural population, albeit with big regional variations. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2007
Martin Ravallion |
Urban Poverty Yes, the poor are gravitating to towns and cities, but more rapid poverty reduction will probably require a faster pace of urbanization, not a slower one -- and development policymakers will need to facilitate this process, not hinder it. |
InternetNews
February 23, 2004
Robyn Greenspan |
The Digital Dirt Road Divide Internet penetration among U.S. rural residents has risen, but the community still lags behind its suburban and urban counterparts. |
IDB America
April 2003
Paul Constance |
An army of volunteer teachers Mexican youths volunteer to teach school in isolated rural villages, earning scholarships and vivid memories in return |
IDB America
April 2004 |
IDB Supports Mexican Rural Financial System The IDB and Mexico signed a contract for a $300 million policy-based loan to support the consolidation of a reform of the Mexican rural financial system. |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2009 |
Drill Down A new digital curriculum model allows teachers to choose their own instructional materials. The Speak Up 2008 survey gave students the power to handpick content for a new kind of online textbook. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 1, 2010 |
2020 Vision: Experts Forecast What the Digital Revolution Will Bring Next A discussion about how far we've come in education technology, and where we can expect to go. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2009 |
Student Attitudes: Online Learning Students participating in a survey reveal their opinions about online learning courses. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2012 |
Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 5, 2009
Scott Aronowitz |
How Can American Education Compete Globally? Motoko Akiba and Gerald LeTendre published a book, entitled Improving Teacher Quality: The U.S. Teaching Force in Global Context, in which they make the argument that the way to improve U.S. teachers' quality is to overhaul the way teachers are recruited, trained, and hired. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011
Dan Ferber |
Calling All Teachers This article focuses on preservice training -- training college students and graduates to be STEM teachers. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 19, 2009
David Nagel |
Science Students Benefit from Teachers' Research Experience When high school and middle school science teachers engage in extracurricular research work, their students benefit. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 1, 2010
Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Instant Web Access? 'Fancy' That One reason we may not be making much progress in tech-based education is a mistaken assumption among the public about the amount of access to technology that teachers and students have. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 1, 2009 |
Drill Down As smart phone usage rises, applying the devices in education grows imperative. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 4, 2009
David Nagel |
Computer Science Courses on the Decline According to new research from the Computer Science Teachers Association, not only have the number of students enrolled in computer science has dropped significantly in the last four years and so have the number of AP computer science courses offered at high schools. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2009 |
Drill Down Students, teachers, parents, and administrators were asked to outfit their ultimate school with one guiding criterion: maximizing achievement. |
PHONE+
July 20, 2009 |
Case Study: LifeSize Takes Teachers to Class With looming budget cuts, one school district turns to video communication to keep teachers connected for professional development, staff meetings, and training sessions. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 29, 2009
David Nagel |
Q&A: iNACOL's Susan Patrick on Trends in eLearning At last count, there were more than 1 million enrollments in K-12 online schools in the United States. |
InternetNews
February 27, 2006
Roy Mark |
Rural America Closing Broadband Gap According to a new study, 24 percent of adult rural Americans went online with a high-speed connection by end of 2005, compared to 39 percent of home broadband users in urban and suburban areas. |
IDB America
May/Jun 2000 |
A fresh look at rural development Years after it went out of vogue, the rural economy is again emerging as a priority for boosting national performance and reducing poverty, according to experts at a seminar held in New Orleans in March during the IDB's annual meeting.... |
Information Today
September 22, 2015 |
Gale Shares TEAMS Award Winners The TEAMS Award is offered every 2 years to schools whose teachers and media specialists collaborate to promote learning and student achievement. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2009
Dan Gordon |
Profile :: Steven Paine West Virginia's superintendent of schools argues that classroom technology use is at the core of 21st-century learning. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012 |
HHMI Awards $50 Million to Colleges Forty-seven small colleges and universities have accepted a challenge: to create more engaging science classes, bring real-world research experiences to students, and increase the diversity of students who study science. |
BusinessWeek
November 19, 2009
Geri Smith |
Healing Chile's Malaise Despite decades of economic growth, average citizens are dissatisfied -- and want better schools and more opportunities |
